Andrew Lipczynski 🇺🇦🕊

Sandwich Bay Bird Observatory ex-Chair, Monks Wall Nature Reserve, Birder, Moth'er, Butter/Dragon/Damsel-flyist.

[Andrew Lipczynski 🇺🇦🕊 @amjlip]

As we enter the abyss, I'm voting with my feet - well fingers to be truthful. You can now catch me on @andrewlipczynski.bsky.social. Bye X and thanks for all the phish 😒.

[Kent Wildlife Trust @KentWildlife]

Nature at risk ⚠️ UK Government promised to protect nature. But it’s breaking that promise. Demand they scrap the part of the new Planning and Infrastructure Bill which threatens important wildlife protections. Take action 👇 https://t.co/QgqrOMwXdt

[Andrew Lipczynski 🇺🇦🕊 @amjlip]

@PaulSelby18 @Mariposa_Nature @dunnjons Good luck Paul. After searching all morning in the Laurisilva without as much as a glimpse, we decided to have a rest and a snack in cafe at Ribeiro Frio when this happened...

[Andrew Lipczynski 🇺🇦🕊 @amjlip]

@PaulSelby18 @Mariposa_Nature @dunnjons I think we shook every (nearly) Acacia on Tenerife last February looking for that wee beastie.😒

[Andrew Lipczynski 🇺🇦🕊 @amjlip]

@dunnjons Here's to you catching a break in 2025. Happy New year Jon.

Terrible pun I know but well intended.

[Andrew Lipczynski 🇺🇦🕊 @amjlip]

Just a few more happy memories to take away with you Greg....

[Greg Lee @GJLee122]

Extremely proud to have been a part of the brilliant Observatory at Sandwich Bay for three years. A truly excellent experience with so much going on and so much wildlife. Thanks to all the local birders and volunteers who I met along the way. Looking forward to next year!

[SBBOT @Sandwichbirdobs]

Fantastic photos from L.Sole of a juvenile Snow Bunting on the beach. Has anyone ever heard of birds wintering in this plumage in the UK?

[Andrew Lipczynski 🇺🇦🕊 @amjlip]

I just nominated SANDWICH BAY BIRD OBSERVATORY TRUST https://t.co/cGsnsPeOl0

[Andrew Lipczynski 🇺🇦🕊 @amjlip]

@blunderbirder Looks to me like a male Red-veined Darter, S.fonscolombii ?

[SBBOT @Sandwichbirdobs]

Come along to our Christmas Fair on Sunday 8th Dec, 10:00 AM - 2:00 PM, with activities, food, crafts, and raffle.

[Dungeness Bird Observatory @DungenessBO]

Hume’s Warbler caught and ringed.

[Chris van Swaay @chrisvanswaay]

Butterflies extinct in NL: Scarce Heath (zilverstreephooibeestje, Coenonympha hero). Always had a very restricted distribution in NL, there is no habitat anymore. Doing bad in most in W Europe.

[Andrew Lipczynski 🇺🇦🕊 @amjlip]

@gibbard_crisis @Sandwichbirdobs Maybe - I've yet to see today's sightings from @plodingbirder @DungenessBO

[Andrew Lipczynski 🇺🇦🕊 @amjlip]

A pair of Whooper Swans on Minnis Flash, RSPB Worth Marshes this am. First alerted by the evocative sound of subdued distant bugling, then chased off by a resident Mute returning later. A scarce passage migrant through & rare winter visitor to @Sandwichbirdobs recording area.

[Andrew Lipczynski 🇺🇦🕊 @amjlip]

What's happening @savebutterflies ? After receiving an 'urgent appeal' had a look at most recent Annual Report & Financial Statements Accounts (31 March 2024). To me they show a healthy balance sheet & reserves plus 'interesting' insights into remuneration of key management🤔

[SBBOT @Sandwichbirdobs]

Impressive new MOTUS hit of a Song Thrush tagged on 17th Sep in Denmark, departed on 9th Oct, passed through four stations in Germany, arrived on Netherlands coast on 15th Oct, departed on 17th, passed through the Belgian Coast at approx 18:45 reaching SBBOT at 20:15 on 2nd Nov!

[Andrew Lipczynski 🇺🇦🕊 @amjlip]

Although Sandwich Bay (& Kent) have, so far, missed out on some of the more exotic vagrants that favoured NE England 😭, we have had at least 2 Siberian Chiffchaffs. This individual, ringed on Wednesday, still frequents the Obs Pond playing hide-and-seek in the Sallows. красивы��

[Andrew Lipczynski 🇺🇦🕊 @amjlip]

@plodingbirder Been there done that. Horrible

[Andrew Lipczynski 🇺🇦🕊 @amjlip]

@Alexander_Lees Excellent objective thread although I suspect for many that made the twitch, wishful thinking will trump (no pun intended) facts.

[Andrew Lipczynski 🇺🇦🕊 @amjlip]

@Bucktonbirder @Alexander_Lees 😮

Very surprised is an understatement right?